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.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

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

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 think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

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.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.