I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music is the framework around the silence.