I'm Just Lucky To Have The Type

I Almost Never Watch Tv, Except For '60 Minutes' And Pro Football. I Love Drew Brees, The Manning Brothers And The Steelers' Linebackers.

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.

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.

It's Our Job To Just Do As Much As We Can To Enlighten The People About It And To Represent It By Playing It With Some Integrity. That's What I Try To Do.

Jazz Is Democracy In Music.