If You Don't Live It, It Won't

When I First Heard Music, I Thought It Should Be Very Clean, Very Precise. Something That People Could Understand, Something That Was Beautiful.

I Kept Thinking There's Bound To Be Something Else? I Could Hear It Sometimes, But I Couldn't Play It.

I Look At Melody As Rhythm.

Music Is Your Own Experience, Your Own Thoughts, Your Wisdom. If You Don't Live It, It Won't Come Out Of Your Horn. They Teach You There's A Boundary Line To Music. But, Man, There's No Boundary Line To Art.

I Don't Care Who Likes It Or Buys It. Because If You Use That Criterion, Mozart Would Never Have Written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker Would Have Never Played Anything But Swing Music.