Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.
I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
