My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

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

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

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