I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.
I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.
I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
This is what really makes real jazz musicians people coming out with their own voice.
Music has a way of getting under your skin.
Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.
Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.
I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.
I like to explore sounds.
I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.
When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.
I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
You can work on music a few lifetimes.
