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" I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record. "

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" When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano. "

" My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor. "

" See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules. "

" I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. "

" One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values. "

" Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision. "

" It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz. "

" We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us. "

" Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life. "

" Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward. "

" While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. "

" It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. "

" Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. "

" The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique. "

" You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life. "

" Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. "

" I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time. "

" So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us. "

" When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in. "

" It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more. "

" One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything. "

" I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. "

" I think I was supposed to play jazz. "

" I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. "

" In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered. "

" I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. "

Looking Forward

" It is people's hearts that move the age. "

" At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. "

" I've been curious ever since I was a little kid. "

" But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. "