For the world has changed, and we must change with it
What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise. . . but a way of life.
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.
It's a real democratic time for comedy, and I think my special is a sign for that. You don't have to just be a classic stand-up to get a special, or you don't just have to be on Saturday Night Live to do characters and sketch on TV. The web has allowed me to show that there are different ways to make people laugh, and the special is a combination of those things.
Paradise is always where love dwells.
There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.