Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

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.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

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

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.