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.

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

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

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?

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

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