"One of the first questions asked by potential distributors was 'How are you going to make this music still seem relevant?' I knew how I was going to do it."
"Naturally whatever is occurring in the world, and we are living in difficult times today, it's going to influence each of us in different ways depending on how we look at the world."
"I think jazz musicians have a way of dealing with truth that is inherent in the music itself. In order to be a jazz musicians, you can't lie to yourself."
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard once said, “If you are hung up on maintaining the tradition, you’re never going to be yourself....