You've got to learn your instrument.
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.
Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.