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

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The trumpet is forceful.

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.

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

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