One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.