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" One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. "

" 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. "

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

" I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it. "

" Hip-hop is all over the planet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Looking Forward

" 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 hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can. "

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

" When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best. "

" 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. "

" In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. "

" I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. "

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

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

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

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

" Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.' "

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

" 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. "

" You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist. "

" It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. "

" Music truly is the universal language. "