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.

I look at melody as rhythm.

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

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

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

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

You've got to learn your instrument.