The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise. . . but a way of life.
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.
Sometimes, when there's a video montage. I'm thinking, 'That's my life. Oh, my God, I did that. ' Yeah, it's amazing.
To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point, it was a very tarnished name.
I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.