The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

Don't bullshit' just play.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

There's the tradition in jazz of having the “Battle of the Bands” and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.

Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.