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.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

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!

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

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.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.