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 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!

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.

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

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

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.