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I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!