Agendas Quote by Joe Locke

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled…

— Jon Gordon

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for…

— David Lee Roth

Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events,…

— Josip Novakovich

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly…

— Mel Torme

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

— Joanna Scott

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

— Claire Danes

“Keith Jarrett’s achievements and contribution are immense and unique and it is primarily the fact that he cannot be pigeonholed which has so confused…

— Ian Carr

“Music is a story and you're the author”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.

— Kenneth Branagh

Aaron Dessner is an expert at letting the narrative carry the story. He's reminding me constantly of the importance of space and room in…

— Gracie Abrams

Marty Scurll is fantastic, and I am a big fan of his work.

— Sean Waltman