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" I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. "

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" The music becomes something that is its own entity. "

" Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. "

" My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement. "

" Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. "

" I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal. "

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

" Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. "

" 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. "

" I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. "

" The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental. "

" I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others. "

" Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill. "

" 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. "

" It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. "

" All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note. "

" You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. "

" I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. "

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

" 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. "

" The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. "

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

" I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour. "

" 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. "

" 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. "