it ain't as hard as picking cotton

We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans).

To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never experienced any jazz whatsoever, you have to believe beyond the fear of rejection. But that fear is part of creating.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.