These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

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

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

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

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

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.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.