I Think That Virtuosity Is

I Love Gustavo Dudamel And I Love What He Does For Classical Music, And I Love What He Comes Out Of, El Sistema And The Old Man Abreu. When We Were In Venezuela, I Had The Chance To Go To His Building. He Had, Like, Five Or Six Orchestras Playing Of Kids From The Hood Playing, Like, Mahler's Third Symphony And Shostakovich Fifth And Beethoven. Man, It's Unbelievable. I Mean, They Could Play.

Jazz Is Not The Kind Of Music You Are Going To Learn To Play In Three Or Four Years Or That You Can Just Get Because You Have Some Talent For Music.

Blues Is Like The Roux In A Gumbo. People Ask Me If Jazz Always Has The Blues In It. I Say, If It Sounds Good It Does.

I Have Absolutely No Idea What My Generation Did To Enrich Our Democracy. We Dropped The Ball. We Entered A Period Of Complacency And Closed Our Eyes To The Public Corruption Of Our Democracy.

Don't Worry About What Others Say About Your Music. Pursue Whatever You Are Hearing... But If Everybody Really Hates Your Music Maybe You Could Try Some Different Approaches.