This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

Thank the good Lord for a job.

No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.