For me, music and life are all about style.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.