Bamboo Is Not A Weed, It's A

Jazz Is People's Music, A Collectivity.

I Heard Sidney Bechet Play A Duke Ellington Piece And Fell In Love With The Soprano Saxophone.

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.

The More Original Something Is, The More Of A Threat It Seems Until The People Catch Up With It. That Happened With Thelonious Monk. It Happened With Anybody Who Is Really Original.

I Wanted To Be A Pianist But It Just Wasn't My Thing. I Guess I Wanted To Stand Up Rather Than Sit Down.