Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
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.
I look at melody as rhythm.
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.