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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.