In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter.

- Christian Scott

People call what we do "stretch music." This is our style, and one of the newer, in vogue ways of playing creative, improvised music. It really grew …

- Christian Scott

I liked trumpet because it's related to boxing, but also it has a capacity to create a different type of beauty. There are fight fans, people who wan…

- Christian Scott

What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot o…

- Christian Scott

Creating an environment musically that shows that we all belong together is what I'm interested in doing, and that happened really early on.

- Christian Scott

Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone is …

- Christian Scott

To me, trying to achieve the balance is when you become good: when you have enough technique to be able to play what is that you want, but also when …

- Christian Scott

I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most o…

- Christian Scott

The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have…

- Christian Scott