Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Everything I do is Mingus.
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.