I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

Everybody in America is angry about something.

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.