I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise. . . but a way of life.
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.
I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.
it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.
As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.