 Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. |
| The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. |
| The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. |
| Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. |
| Jazz is about being in the moment. |
| I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. |
| But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. |
| Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. |
| The music becomes something that is its own entity. |
| One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. |
| Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. |
| Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. |
| The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. |
| It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. |
| Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique. |
| You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. |
| Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. |
| I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. |
| In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. |
| I think I was supposed to play jazz. |
