If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.