Jazz Is People's Music, A Collectivity.

Circumstances Can Be Very Important. Find The Right People To Work With.

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.

Register Is Very Important. Music Sounds Best In A Certain Register.

Nobody Was Playing The Soprano Saxophone And Certainly Nobody Was Trying To Do Anything With It. So I Was All Alone. I Didn't Know That At First.

What I Learned With Cecil Taylor Was Strategy And Survival And How To Resist Temptations And Resist Getting Discouraged.