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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.
The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.
One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.
John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.
There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.
Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.
Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice.
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.
Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
Americans, unknowingly, live part of every day in the house that Satch built.
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.
It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?
You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.
You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?
The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.
I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.