Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.

The best thing you can do is just go and have fun with [competition].

I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.

Love is the answer for the team's success.

The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.