Bone2Pick Interviews

Invest in who you are. Invest in what you want to be.

We’re always going to be on the brink of disaster, that’s just the way the music business is. I believe it will always find a way, because music is part of being human.

Things that trumpet players usually don’t do . . . teach at M.I.T.

I’ve played my 46th score for John Williams as first trumpet. Most recent was the last Indiana Jones movie. The first was The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing in 1973 with Burt Reynolds.

Whenever you have a choice between the facts and the legend, always go with the legend. Whatever you’ve heard is true.

Don’t have too many expectations . . . go where you go.

I got to Symphony Hall early to fulfill my orchestral fantasy and played Mahler 3 on my King 2B . . . probably gives you guys the heebie-jeebies just thinking about that.

Bud Herseth used to refer to me as a greenhorn. I was totally a greenhorn. I didn’t know one side of the trumpet from the other.

When I go to work, I feel like wow . . . I’m going to work in the New York Philharmonic! I still can’t believe it.

We were in a small room. Arnold Jacobs was there, Sir Georg Solti was there and Solti told me that I had won the job. I made it very very clear I was not replacing Arnold Jacobs because Arnold Jacobs was irreplaceable.

The LSO was a worker's co-operative, just like the original Berlin Philharmonic; we employed ourselves and we had a fantastic ethos of working together to improve standards and success