The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all other dead things that were once considered artistic.

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be in Louisiana. It will be as close to New Orleans as we can get it,

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.