Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.
In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and I got a good sound, I'll beat you every time. You can play a thousand notes and I can play one note and wipe you out. What I reach for is. . . a sound.
What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.
I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman
Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take. " In person you hash things out.
You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple