I Dress Up A Certain Way Because

Jazz Is Not The Kind Of Music You Are Going To Learn To Play In Three Or Four Years Or That You Can Just Get Because You Have Some Talent For Music.

I Believed In Studying Just Because I Knew Education Was A Privilege. It Was The Discipline Of Study, To Get Into The Habit Of Doing Something That You Don't Want To Do.

The First Jazz Musician Was A Trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, And The Last Will Be A Trumpeter, The Archangel Gabriel.

The Soul Gives Us Resilience - An Essential Quality Since We Constantly Have To Rebound From Hardship.

As You Get Older - For Example, In Our Band We Have Members Of Our Orchestra, Like Carlos Enriquez And Ali Jackson And Walter Blanning. I Taught Them When They Were In High School, And Now They Teach Me.i'll Regularly Call Ali And Say, "man, Can You Break This Rhythm Down For Me?" Or Carlos Was Actually Our Music Director In Cuba, And He's Been Instrumental In A Lot Of My Education, And I Started To Develop A Saying With Them, Because They Tease Me All The Time - You Get Older, You Have That Familiar Relationship - I Say, "you Have To Follow Your Young Leadership, Too."