I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

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

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.