My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.