My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

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

Music is one big thing to me.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.