Sustained Intensity Equals Ecstacy.

There's So Much Spirit Of Integration And Democracy In Jazz.

I Have Absolutely No Idea What My Generation Did To Enrich Our Democracy. We Dropped The Ball. We Entered A Period Of Complacency And Closed Our Eyes To The Public Corruption Of Our Democracy.

It's Really Not A Stretch. The Checks And Balances Are The Same. The Drums Are The Executive Branch. The Jazz Orchestra Is The Legislative Branch. Logic And Reason Are Like Jazz Solos. The Bass Player Is The Judicial Branch. One Our Greatest Ever Is Milt Hinton, And His Nickname Is "the Judge."

I Believe In Professionalism, But Playing Is Not Like A Job. You Have To Be Grateful To Have The Opportunity To Play.

I Get So Much From Having The Opportunity To Interface With The Younger People And To Bring Information To Them And To Represent Our Culture And Our Way Of Life. The Feeling And The Warmth And The Love, It's Unbelievable. The Type Of Exchange That Goes On Between Students And Teachers Or Visiting People Who Are Doing Master Classes, And Not Just When They're Musicians. Even General Classes, When The Students Are Not Necessarily Musicians.