I Find That Here In The States,

Music And Culture Are Intrinsically Improvisational, Existential.

Music Is A Language, And It's Like A Dictionary That Has A Lot Of Words, But If You Limited Yourself To A Couple Of Definitions You Would Be Illiterate. If One Limits Oneself To A Peculiar Definition Like 'new Music,' 'avant-garde,' Or Something Like That, I Think It's Like Cutting Out Half The Dictionary.

So, I Was Just A Young Guy, Maybe With An Idea, And Cecil Taylor, Himself A Rebel, Would Take A Chance On A Guy Like Me. It Turned Out To Be A Very Symbiotic Partnership. I Learned A Lot From Him.

To Some Degree, Yeah, Because I Have To Play A Certain Number Of Originals That Might Be Considered Avant-garde Material. I Realize Though, That Only A Few People In The Audience Actually Know What That Music Is, Or Understand It.

Rap Actually Took Root In The Negro Community, And Then In The Hispanic Community, Long Before It Impacted On The Larger American Community As A Whole.