What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear