When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
To keep creating you have to be about change.
It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.
If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.