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

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so..." That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

We all played bad before we played good.

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

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.