When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
From Herbie Hancock
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.
Take whatever happens and try to make it work.
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
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