- If you can say, I’d rather play badly from a place of gratitude than play well from a place of neurotically managing the shit out of the music … that’s a very mature place.
- Success is not playing what you intend. Success is not sounding good. Success is simply playing anything at all.
- What is “your voice.” It’s not the thing your ego wants it to be. It’s the next sound that comes out of your mouth.
- Every note I play is the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard. You don’t get there by thinking that thought. You get there by subtracting all thoughts.
- When all discrimination and judgement about notes is gone every note is equal, pristine and pure … it opens your rhythm up and your harmony up …
- Every day I live is the most beautiful day of my life. You don’t get there by thinking it. You get there by not thinking.
