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

It's our job to just do as much as we can to enlighten the people about it and to represent it by playing it with some integrity. That's what I try to do.

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.

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

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.