“I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.” — Wynton Marsalis

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

The bandstand is a sacred place.