I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

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.

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

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

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