"To be performing such an extraordinary range of music is both a great joy and it's a challenge, but most of all it's a tremendous privilege."
"There has been a framing of jazz in a way for sometime where like it's not for young people. It's not cool. I always want to push back on that one."
"I think how we've approached this, from looking at it with the Playhouse, was as an invitation back. Welcome home. Welcome back!" - Jenny Koons
"Whether you're a musician or a writer everything comes down to story and narrative. And that's why I like to call myself a storyteller more than a singer or a musician."
"I want to welcome audience members who feel like they stick out like a sore thumb. Come here and stick out like a sore thumb with all of us. " - George Salazar
"There are four strings, two octaves and there's something about the sound when I hear it. It just it takes me back to the islands and it makes me feel young."
"The most amazing artistic moments of my life have happened in a live performance where you feel the silence, the absence of noise."
"All of the aspects of identity that he outlined, I also embody. So by being able to realize his words, I’m able to be very closely in conversatoin or community or connection with his aspirations."
"There might be certain spots in the performing in which it’s literally just me responding and vice-versa to what the dancers are doing. Utilizing the moment to really come up with a unique approach to it every night. I think that’s exciting to all of us to have that.”
"I think my role as director is to unlock something specific, more specific, so there's a sort of universality to what you feel from the music."