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 play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

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.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.