I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

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

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.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

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

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