Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.