When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.

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

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

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

I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.