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

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

It is people's hearts that move the age.

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

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

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

I try to practice with my life.

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

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

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

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

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

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

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

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

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.

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

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.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

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