They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.

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.

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

The way we look at it, everything is 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.