You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.