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

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

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

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?

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.