Creative music will only really work in the marketplace if you’re a good businessman.
It’s like looking at the Dead Sea Scrolls when you look at the paper with Thad Jones hand.
Richard Galliano, the world’s greatest accordionist, hired me to play piano and accordion, which obviously made me the world’s second greatest accordionist!
You can create a lot of great opportunities for yourself as a musician if you just make stuff.
Writing for McCoy was great. You could be the saddest arranger in the world. . . you could write nothing, but when he plays it, it sounds great!
For the record, if anyone on Broadway or in LA says it’s going to be easy, you have to assume it’s going to be the hardest thing in the world!
Working with Michael Brecker was the deepest experience of my life.
If you look at someone standing in front of a big band, they probably wrote a check for the privilege.
House of Cards has been a dream job in terms of the amount of freedom I have. I have one of the longest creative leashes I’ve ever had.
