World domination for brass is my goal within 10 years.
I remember playing Studio 54 on New Year’s Eve in 1985. You get your freak on in a place like that!
I gravitated to the weird kid instruments. Euphonium. . . . what’s that? I’ll play that!
In the old days, we'd have copying parties. . . you copy violin 1, you copy violin 2.
The real art in music is composing and improvising. There’s nothing else. I wanted in my life to somehow get better in those fields.
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.
