You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

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.

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

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

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