The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start businesses around what you love doing.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.