Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound