Wayne Shorter Quotes

I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff.

I like the ability to wake up and say, 'Well, now what are we going to do?'

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.