“We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.- Roger Sullivan”

“And the thing is, we can’t fail. We’ve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can’t go wrong, babe.”

“How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?”

“We can’t always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.”

“Talking of his relationship with Jarrett, DeJohnette says, “I love him because, as a pianist and drummer myself, I can identify with him … the concept of what to ignore, what to leave in, what to leave out… we intuitively understand that … that’s why when we play together… we never know what’s going to happen, but we always get something happening that turns us on.”

“What’s your name?”“You just can’t take a hint, can you?”“That’s kind of a mouthful. Do you happen to go by a nickname?”