Whoever Has An Original Thing To Say,

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

A Jazz Musician Is A Combination Orator, Dialectician, Mathematician, Athlete, Entertainer, Poet, Singer, Dancer, Diplomat, Educator, Student, Comedian, Artist, Seducer, Public Masturbator, And General All-round Good Fellow.

There Is An Awful Lot Of What I Call Recreational Jazz Going On, Where People Go Out And Learn A Particular Language Or Style And Become Real Sharks On Somebody Else's Language.

I Heard Sidney Bechet Play A Duke Ellington Piece And Fell In Love With The Soprano Saxophone.

I've Performed Solo For 20 Years Now, But I Don't Do Much Of It, Because If You Only Play Alone, You Go Crazy And Out Of Tune And Play Foolish Music.