Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.