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

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.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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