“You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say.”

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists.

If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

The sense of frustration, the sense of getting caught, doing something wrong, all those are sort of universal emotions and you just have to make it specific to yourself and you channel this.

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

There are a lot of artists who have gotten pretty caught up in that. That’s why I like the defeatist attitude. Just assume that no one is going to like it and that no one cares, and you’ll end up making something that you really like.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.

Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.