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We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise ... but a way of life.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

The trumpet is forceful.

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.