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.

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

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

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

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.

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

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