The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

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

I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

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

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

It is people's hearts that move the age.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

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.

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 music becomes something that is its own entity.

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.

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.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.