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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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