favourite quotations
"music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes
calls on unlikely characters to give it voice."
- robert fripp

"to see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour"
- william blake

"we can’t use the vernacular of a past culture
or society to artistically address what is floating
in the world consciousness today and expect to
speak to our generation while staying with the
undercurrents of what’s going on."
- cuong vu

"one of our goals is to create a music that is a
vivid reflection of the immediacy and feel of the
urban areas from which it was spawned."
- greg osby

"tradition can be negative if the importance
of having roots outweighs the importance
of searching for what's valuable in new things
being presented."
- herbie hancock

"a big part of our job as musicians is to redefine
the culture we're living in, to show aspects of our
culture that the public doesn't see. we have this
sophisticated language that we can use to describe
in detail things to people that they wouldn't normally
think about. and you have to be authentic to do that.
at the core of authenticity is the word author.
the musicians who are the authors of their own sound
and language have a certain authority that's not present
in people who are imitating."
- pat metheny

"the amateur works until they get something right
the professional works until they can't go wrong."
- julie andrews