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

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

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

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.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

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.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.