Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

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.

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

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

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!