Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

If you want to be different, do something different.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

Don't bullshit' just play.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.