Risk Is At The Heart Of Jazz.

Whoever Has An Original Thing To Say, It Is Sort Of A Threat To The Status Quo.

To Me, There Is Spirit In A Reed. It's A Living Thing, A Weed, Really, And It Does Contain Spirit Of A Sort. It's Really An Ancient Vibration.

In Composition You Have All The Time You Want To Decide What To Say In 15 Seconds, In Improvisation You Have 15 Seconds.

When I Found The Music Of Monk I Finally Found Music That Fit That Horn. Every One Of His Tunes Fit It Perfectly.

If You're Trying To Invent Something New, You're Going To Reach A Lot Of Discouraging Points, And Most People Give Up.