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

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

The trumpet is forceful.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.