Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.
I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.