"Just serve the art, serve the music as best as you can, as honestly as you can, as diligently and thoughtfully and thoroughly as possible, and let the rest take care of itself."
"I don't think it's going to be better than John Coltrane, frankly. My generation, we're not going to quite get to what that is. So what we have to do is figure out things to add to it, to make something a little different."
"There is not an inherent gorgeousness to classical music itself. We find it gorgeous because we find ourselves represented in it. We have not been successful at making it relevant for everybody."
"Liza used to tell me any time that you can work and perform on your birthday, it’s kind of the best thing to do because it is the birthday wish come true. "
"Once you get a feel for the audience after two or three songs, you kind of take them on this music journey and you're a deejay of your own music."
"The tragedy in this movie is that at the heart of it is this unrequited love story, which is a very, almost adolescent kind of pain. But that pain is magnified by the pain of the catastrophe in the background."
"I just felt that I became much more in touch with the kind of music that I wanted to play, the kind of playing I want to do and the kinds of projects that I find really engaging."
"Am I just here because I'm Black or am I here because I'm talented? I tend to be the only black person in the room. I see that changing."
Happy New Year to everyone. Very soon we'll begin new interviews and highlights for 2022. But before we do, here is my list of the Top 10 of 2021:
#1: The Return of Live Performances
There isn't any one show...
"Working on it helped me process my unconscious. But I don't want them to be distracted by it, by me. I want my music to be a vehicle for them to access their own unconscious."