I can play all I know in eight bars.

It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

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

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

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

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

I look at melody as rhythm.