This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

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.

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.