If You Looked Around, You'd Be Glad

Don't Worry About What Others Say About Your Music. Pursue Whatever You Are Hearing... But If Everybody Really Hates Your Music Maybe You Could Try Some Different Approaches.

Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

We Started To Confuse Entertainment With Art, Because Art Has A Component Of Entertainment. It Has To Have That Or It Becomes Too Boring. It Becomes Too Lost In Its Own Devices. But I Just Think That We Started To Lose, And Even Before That, It's Not Necessary.

The Reason Why The Music [jazz] Is Important Is Because It's An Art Form-an Ancient Art Form-that Takes In The Mythology Of Our People.

The Only Justification For Looking Down On Anyone Is That You're Going To Stop And Pick Them Up.