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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.