Master Your Instrument. Master The Music. And

Bop Is No Love-child Of Jazz.

I Realized By Using The High Notes Of The Chords As A Melodic Line, And By The Right Harmonic Progression, I Could Play What I Heard Inside Me. That's When I Was Born.

I'm Very Glad To Have Met You. I Like Your Playing Very Much.

I'd Been Getting Bored With The Stereotyped Changes (harmonies) That Were Being Used All The Time. I Found That By Using The Higher Intervals Of A Chord As A Melody Line And Backing Them With Appropriately Related Changes I Could Play The Thing I'd Been Hearing. I Came Alive.

When I First Heard Music, I Thought It Should Be Very Clean, Very Precise. Something That People Could Understand, Something That Was Beautiful.