All A Musician Can Do Is To

I'd Like To Point Out To People The Divine In A Musical Language That Transcends Words. I Want To Speak To Their Souls.

...that Is One Of The Main Causes Of This Arrogance: The Idea Of Power. Then You Lose Your True Power Which Is To Be Part Of All, And The Only Way You Can Be Part Of All Is To Understand It. And When You Don't Understand, You Have To Go Humbly To It. You Don't Go To School And Say, 'i Know What You're Going To Teach Me'.

I Think I Know What It Is But Don't Ask Me To Play It

When You Are Playing With Someone Who Really Has Something To Say, Even Though They May Be Otherwise Quite Different In Style, There’s One Thing That Remains Constant. And That Is The Tension Of The Experience, That Electricity, That Kind Of Feeling That Is A Lift Sort Of Feeling. No Matter Where It Happens, You Know When That Feeling Comes Upon You, And It Makes You Feel Happy.

Working With Monk Brought Me Close To A Musical Architect Of The Highest Order. I Felt I Learned From Him In Every Way--through The Senses, Theoretically, Technically. I Would Talk To Monk About Musical Problems, And He Would Sit At The Piano And Show Me The Answers Just By Playing Them. I Could Watch Him Play And Find Out The Things I Wanted To Know. Also, I Could See A Lot Of Things That I Didn't Know About At All.