Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.