Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music
It’s not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.
It’s part of life to have obstacles. It’s about overcoming obstacles that’s the key to happiness.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That’s hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don’t have to trust anybody but themselves.
It’s easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn’t. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.
The thing that we possess, that machines don’t, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.
World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
As a human being, I’m concerned about the world that I live in. So, I’m concerned about peace. I’m concerned about – about man’s inhumanity to man. I’m concerned about the environment.
It’s part of life to have obstacles. It’s about overcoming obstacles that’s the key to happiness.
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I’m a husband and a father.
I’m always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.