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

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

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

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!

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.