The Nerves Are A Problem On Trumpet,

I Didn't Have A Philosophical Understanding Of Music Until I Came To New York. I Didn't Understand How It Applied To My Kind And My Generation. I Thought It Was Just Old People Talking.

The Arts Speak Across Epochs. If You Think That People Started To Build A Cathedral In 1315 And The People Worked On That Cathedral, It Wasn't Going To Be Finished Until 1585. So They Were Thinking 200 Years From Now. Maybe By The Time I Die, This Wall Might Be Put Up.

The Main Three Components Are The Blues, Improvisation - Which Is Some Kind Of Element That People Are Trying To Make It Up - And Swing, Which Means Even Though They're Making Up Music, They're Trying To Make It Up Together. It Feels Great, Like You're Having A Great Conversation With Somebody.

Don't Wish For Someone Else To Do Later What You Can Do Now.

We Started To Confuse Entertainment With Art, Because Art Has A Component Of Entertainment. It Has To Have That Or It Becomes Too Boring. It Becomes Too Lost In Its Own Devices. But I Just Think That We Started To Lose, And Even Before That, It's Not Necessary.