Wayne Shorter Music Quotations

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

Music is interior decoration.