I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.