When I pass a piano anywhere, I have to touch it or play it. - Ahmad Jamal

A guy that knows all these electronic things may be great [...] but a guy who knows acoustic and electronic is better. Just like a guy who knows Mozart only may be great, but a guy who knows Mozart and Duke Ellington is better. And a guy who knows Mozart and Brahms and Ellington is even better . . . It's musical depth perception.

I'm still evolving, whenever I sit down at the piano [...] I still come up with some fresh ideas.

I always tried to divest myself of the music business. I wasn’t too thrilled with the music business at any time [...] So I have always sought to do other things.