Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.
Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.
I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.
We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.