I Never Consciously Tried To Conceive Of

I Never Consciously Tried To Conceive Of What My Sound Should Be...i Never Tried To Imitate Anybody, But When You Love Somebody's Music, You're Influenced...i Really Don't Know How I Developed My Sound, But It Comes From A Combination Of My Musical Conception And No Doubt The Basic Shape Of The Oral Cavity.

You Don't Rehearse Jazz To Death To Get The Camera Angles.

The Value Of Jazz Still Has To Be Clarified. People Involve Themselves With Its Superficialities Without Digging For Its Soul.

I've Always Regretted The Fact That I've Never Formally Studied And Learned The Mechanics Of Writing Music.

I Appreciate Men Like Ben Webster And Coleman Hawkins Very Much.