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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment. "

" I think I was supposed to play jazz. "

" I'm not special, no more special than anybody else. "

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

" Hip-hop is all over the planet. "

" Jazz is about being in the moment. "

" The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned. "

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

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

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