Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.
The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.