The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Honestly speaking, I am very hardcore when it comes to my music because at the end of the day the song that I am creating will remain forever.
The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.
