What I Try To Do Is Produce

As Much As I Think John Coltrane Belongs On The List, I Think Without Coleman Hawkins And Lester Young, Both Of Whom Defined Improvising On The Tenor Sax, There Would Not Have Been The Evolution Of The Craft By John Coltrane.

If You're In Jazz And More Than Ten People Like You, You're Labeled Commercial.

Let's Say You Have Some Chicken Stock And You're Making Soup, And Out Of Everything You Can Taste, Some Of The Things You Put In And Some Of The Things You Don't. So You Start Out With An African Spice Then You Hear Some Brazilian Music, So Then It Changes. Then You Hear Jamaican And It Changes Again. And The Result Depends On How Much Of Each Spice You Put Into It. Now, I've Been Putting In Spices Since I Started Playing Professionally In 1945.

My Ego Is Controlled Enough That I Don't Have To Be The Focus.

One Of The Advantages Of Not Having A Record Contract Is That You Can Make Your Own Mistakes, You Don't Need Somebody Else To Organize Them For You.