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" Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. "

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" Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were. "

" Music truly is the universal language. "

" Jazz is about being in the moment. "

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

" Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. "

" The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. "

" Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. "

" I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures. "

" Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique. "

" When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being? "

" I think I was supposed to play jazz. "

" 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. "

" I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself. "

" I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. "

" 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. "

" World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own. "

" 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. "

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

" We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion. "

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

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

" The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. "

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

" I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts. "

" Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person. "

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

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" One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people. "