The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.