The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.