All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
The emotional reaction is all that matters.
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.
I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy and Bird.
All of the technique doesn’t matter… only if the feeling is right.
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels and that’s too bad.
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
Through Dizzy and Bird I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
