Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

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.

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.

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

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

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.