Kansan.com has a new interview with John Scofield today:

I have advice for jazz professors. This is the line that has a great shock value but I really like it: Jazz can be learned but it can’t be taught. I think we have to remember that. That [in the] arts, you teach them the techniques you know and the stuff that made you into a musician, and then after that, it’s up to god, if there is a god. It’s up to the cosmos.