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" 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. "

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

" 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've been a religious, spiritual person for a long 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Take whatever happens and try to make it work. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle. "

" You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "