My music is Jazz.
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
I’ll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I’m always writing music.
I’m always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
Music’s a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing very powerful emotions. That’s what draws people towards it.
People complain about the music industry, but this is a great time to be a musician.
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about Jazz and Blues.
I don’t really get nervous, I prepare. When the music messed up in the beginning, it tapped into my nerves and when you’re nervous and vulnerable, something special and something different can happen.
They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
I always play what I feel. I always feel like me, but I’m a different me every day. I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don’t.
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
Music is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
