The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you’re swept away by it you can’t wait to do it again and the sameContinue reading

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. ~ Alvin Ailey

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out. ~ Katherine Dunham

Learn the history. Dig deep and learn why you’re able to do what you’re doing with such ease now. It’s important, and will only make your world bigger, brighter, more rewarding and honorable. Read theContinue reading

When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of theContinue reading

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~ Maya Angelou

The highest form of execution on a musical instrument is Jazz. We know what we are doing, and we know it’s the truth, and anything the truth falls on it will grind into powder. ItContinue reading

The reason Jazz music is very very sophisticated is because of a spiritual need expressed by the American people to generate an art form that would give them aesthetic solutions to the gigantic problems thatContinue reading

You can call this..like a reflection of what I call something that’s before anything begins existence begins. A song before its existence it exists in the realm of potential, and the potential cannot be given,Continue reading

When you enter the studio thinking about money God walks out the room. – Quincy Jones