Jazz Is People's Music, A Collectivity.

In Composition You Have All The Time You Want To Decide What To Say In 15 Seconds, In Improvisation You Have 15 Seconds.

Before The Work Comes To You, You Have To Invent Work.

When I Found The Music Of Monk I Finally Found Music That Fit That Horn. Every One Of His Tunes Fit It Perfectly.

If You Listen To Louis Armstrong From 1929, You Will Never Hear Anything Better Than That Really, And You Will Never Hear Anything More Free Than That.

I've Performed Solo For 20 Years Now, But I Don't Do Much Of It, Because If You Only Play Alone, You Go Crazy And Out Of Tune And Play Foolish Music.