One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond….

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense..

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then….

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me..

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians..

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were to….

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show..

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia..

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest..

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our ….

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire..

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record..

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format..

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily un….

The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick….

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you..

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't..