My Future Starts When I Wake Up

When Kids Don't Learn About Their Own Heritage In School, They Just Don't Care About School... But You Won't See It In The History Books Unless We Get The Power To Write Our Own History And Tell Our Story Ourselves.

When We Edit The Music, I Always Remember, "it's My Band. Save Me A Place To Play."

Jazz Is An Uncle Tom Word. They Should Stop Using That Word For Selling. I Told George Wein The Other Day That He Should Stop Using It.

A Lot Of People Ask Me Where Music Is Going Today. I Think It's Going In Short Phrases. If You Listen, Anybody With An Ear Can Hear That. Music Is Always Changing. It Changes Because Of The Times And The Technology That's Available, The Material That Things Are Made Of, Like Plastic Cars Instead Of Steel. So When You Hear An Accident Today It Sounds Different, Not All The Metal Colliding Like It Was In The Forties And Fifties. Musicians Pick Up Sounds And Incorporate That Into Their Playing, So The Music That They Make Will Be Different.

In Music, Silence Is More Important Than Sound.