“You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett”

“There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high lev...”

“The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to ...”

“When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parent...”

“At times, talent is gifted! But mostly, it comes with good practice.”

“A gifted man does not waste his life on women.”

“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.”

“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)”