Making The Complicated Simple Is True Creativity.

In My Music, I'm Trying To Play The Truth Of What I Am.

I Was Always Doing Revolutionary Things, Things That Would Alert People, So They Would Stop Being So Subservient.

I Admire Anyone Who Can Come Up With Something Original. But Not Originality Alone, Because There Can Be Originality In Stupidity, With No Musical Description Of Any Emotion Or Any Beauty The Man Has Seen, Or Any Kind Of Life He Has Lived.

I'm Too Busy Playing. When I'm Playing I Don't Pay Attention To Who's Listening. When I Was Listening I Listened To Symphony Orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You Don't Listen To One Instrument; You Listen To Music.

If Charlie Parker Were A Gunslinger, There'd Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats