There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.