African proverb

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Players are coming from other backgrounds: rock, folk, ethnic music. It’s changing Jazz for the better.

I’m fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take it from you.

In this trumpet I hear our icons and the sound of the future.

There’s a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

I don’t care for the music when they’re talking bad about women because I think women are God’s greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

I hear beauty and elegance combined with passion and fire.

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Jazz is not to be sliced into bites by mass marketing geniuses who assume we are mindless cattle.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave it alone.

If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!

A drummer has to be kind-hearted.

When you sing, always tell the truth.