Music Is The Art Of All The

Milk In A Mother's Breast-that's Cool. Milk In A Mouth-that's Cool Too. But Milk In My Trumpet? Not So Cool. I Have To Play That Thing.

The Bandstand Is A Sacred Place.

I'm Not A Person Who Writes Really Abstract Things With Oblique References. I Look At Abstraction Like I Look At Condiments. Give Me Some Tabasco Sauce, Some Ketchup, Some Mayonnaise. I Love All Of That. Put It On A Trumpet. I've Just Got To Have The Ketchup And Tabasco Sauce. That's My Attitude About Musical Philosophy.

Humility Is The Doorway 2 Truth & Clarity Of Objectives... It's The Doorway 2 Learning.

I Travel Up And Down The Country And I've Been All Around The Middle Of America For Many Years. Middle America Is Not One Big Mass Of People With A Proverbial Beer In Its Hand, Keeping The Country Down. That Is Not My Experience Of It And I Don't Labor Under That Misconception. And We Have A Long Tradition Of Coming Together Through Music In Our Country.