I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it..

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny..

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast..

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him..

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs ….

Jazz is rhythm and meaning..

It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible….

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will..

We must be as pure as our music..

This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce bl….

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me..

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues..

I lived and languished..

You have to look good..

After two takes you're imitating yourself..

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live..

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it..

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz..

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here..