They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.