contributed by Kathy Hussey

• Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

  Paul Desmond

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

  Albert Einstein

• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing. Taste is the enemy of creativity.

  Pablo Picasso

• I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

  Miles Davis

• People who make no noise are dangerous.

  Jean delaFontaine

• I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

  Duke Ellington

• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

• A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places.

  Paul Gardener

• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

• I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers. Only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

  Grace Hartigan

• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

  Jalal Ud-Din Rumi

Not everyone is going to like what I do, and that's something I can accept. If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth. - Joshua Redman