This was put together not just as a series of notes and chords. If I depended on what anyone else thinks, I never would have stretched and discovered the various dimensions of myself. |
Tradition can be negative though, if the importance of having roots outweighs the importance of searching for what's valuable in new things being presented. |
We are all on the same trip in the band. We all realize that people in the music business, and the audience have an eye on us because collectively our history is extensive. |
We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment. |
We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together. |
We decided it would be interesting to approach the music as a group solo. |
We live on a planet that now must face, hopefully, a form of globalization inclusive of a vision to make the world a better place for the many -not just a select few -and I believe that the arts are in the forefront of that dream. |
We realize that there doesn't seem to be a lot of people looking into new ways of reexamining the conventions that we've grown to accept in the music. |
We talked for a couple of hours before we played a note. We didn't talk about music, we talked about life - families, children, issues in the world, politics, so many things. The kind of camaraderie we developed helped make the music what it is. I wanted to find a common ground and connect as people first. |
We wanted to share creativity and didn't want to be bound by traditional jazz conventions. |
We were listening to a lot of different people, but we were listening to a lot of real innovators, and we were full of ideas. |
We're dealing with jazz, so we don't have pop/mainstream budgets. |
We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at human beings first for a change, let's balance the thing out. |
Well, I was becoming more of a jazz snob, in thinking that jazz was a higher kind of music, and that R&B was, yes, for the body and more commercial. |
Well, I'm hoping that the narrow categories of music are forced to develop activities that reflect a broader variety of music, so that people get exposed to more variety that they certainly are now. |