If You Strive To Become A Good

I Told My Students The Other Day In Class, Which Is About The Spirituality And Creativity As Much As It Is About Music. I Said, 'if You're Walking Down The Street And You See A Baby Carriage, And There's A Baby In The Carriage; You Look Down And Your Eyes Meet The Eyes Of The Baby. The Baby Looks At You: That's The Kind Of Moment You're In When You're Playing.

It Used To Be That Creative Music Was Most Of The Music That You Heard Back In The '30s And '40s, And Now It's Like 3 Percent. So, Its Kind Of A Struggle Getttin' It Out There.

As Long As There Are Musicians Who Have A Passion For Spontaneity, For Creating Something Thats Never Been Before, The Art Form Of Jazz Will Flourish.

I Always Told The People At Cal Arts That If They Wanted Me To Do Jazz Studies, First Of All, There Couldn't Be A Big Band Within 500 Miles And That I Could Do What I Wanted To Do. And They Said I Could.

Creative Arts Raise A Person To Another Level Of Consciousness As If You Could Imagine Life Before Words.