"Chucho knows that to get the best out of somebody in his own work he has to give up a part of himself and let it pay forward to the next step of the process."
"There's something so powerful about this understatement and intimacy and kind of allowing people to feel all the different facets. It doesn't have to be something obvious, it can be something that's a little bit intriguing."
"I feel that new music is actually more linked to us than maybe a Mozart symphony. Music, art in general, somehow evolves with us in the way we experience the world."
"I think there's something really valuable about building this space for Black musicians and also to inspire the next generation of of creatives to say, you can do something different, too."