I love playing all kinds of music, ... And the way to learn that music is with the musicians who invented that style. It's hard to write a style--you need to absorb it.

This music is very eclectic, ... It's tough to find musicians who are experts in 15 different styles.

After 40 years of recording acoustic music, it is not very often that a new band catches – and keeps – my attention, ... Old School Freight Train has done that and more.

It was a gift. They're really community heroes. And they're all musicians and have a love of music and understand what the Phoenix nurtures.

It is music developing on its own terms. It's the 'music now' concept - what are musicians doing now as opposed to a string quartet playing Brahms. It's music that's delicate and justifies presentation in a special format. That's why we wanted a creative space to justify it.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.