People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.