I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.

I feel very similarly. I didn't have necessarily the same exact kind of dynamic, but that means a lot when people are like that with you. Especially people like that. And I think [Phil Wood] felt a certain responsibility .

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.

Love is the answer for the team's success.