A chord is just the name of a sound.

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

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.

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

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.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

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