More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.