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

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

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

The trumpet is forceful.

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.

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.