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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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