Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.

The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

Jazz is democracy in music.

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