I've Come Close To Matching The Feeling

Jazz Is An Uncle Tom Word. They Should Stop Using That Word For Selling. I Told George Wein The Other Day That He Should Stop Using It.

A Lot Of People Ask Me Where Music Is Going Today. I Think It's Going In Short Phrases. If You Listen, Anybody With An Ear Can Hear That. Music Is Always Changing. It Changes Because Of The Times And The Technology That's Available, The Material That Things Are Made Of, Like Plastic Cars Instead Of Steel. So When You Hear An Accident Today It Sounds Different, Not All The Metal Colliding Like It Was In The Forties And Fifties. Musicians Pick Up Sounds And Incorporate That Into Their Playing, So The Music That They Make Will Be Different.

I'll Play It First And Figure Out What It's Called Later.

When You Work With Great Musicians, They Are Always A Part Of You . . . Their Spirits Are Walking Around In Me, So They're Still Here And Passing It On To Others.

I'm Always Thinking About Creating. My Future Starts When I Wake Up Every Morning... Every Day I Find Something Creative To Do With My Life.