"I don't want to hear people regurgitate what they know. That's not interesting to me. I want to hear people play what they don't know. That's when it gets good."
"If people are able to walk away talking about their own identity as well as understanding a little portion of this Latino family's journey, I think that would be really cool."
"Could Ellington and others have done this kind of work earlier if Gershwin hadn't done it? Maybe. But if they wanted to go that direction, they would have done it regardless of what Gershwin did."