Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.