All you've got to do is keep your ears open..

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound..

Women and rhythm-section first!?.

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life..

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!.

It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmo….

I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bas….

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats..

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together.

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out..