You Need A Team. You Need People

My Father Was A Teacher, My Mama Was A Community Worker, I Taught In So Many Schools. So When You Get That Experience Of How To Communicate With Younger People, Put That Hand On Them And Give Them That Old-school Feeling, The Maturity And Adult, A Lot Of Our Kids Just Need The Feeling Of That Love, And That's The Frame Of Reference That I Teach From And That's The Frame Of Reference That All Of Our Musicians In The Jazz At Lincoln Center.

We Need More Math Classes, We Need More Science. It's The Art Of Math And The Art Of Science That Creates All The Innovation, And We Have A Tradition Of Great Arts, Great Music.

Through Improvisation, Jazz Teaches You About Yourself. And Through Swing, It Teaches You That Other People Are Individuals Too. It Teaches You How To Coordinate With Them.

Jazz Is Democracy In Music.

Some Stances Are Just Conducive To Swinging. If I Stand Up Straight For Too Long It's Harder To Swing. Plus My Feet Hurt.