A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

Honesty's the best policy.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

I take every film as it comes.