You've got to learn your instrument..

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz..

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself..

Jazz will be the classical music of the future..

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't..

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it..

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music..

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived..

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz..

Instrumental music can spread the international language..

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist..

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about..

Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything..

You must own it to play it..

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means..

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical..

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen..

The jazz musician's function is to feel..

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet..

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years..