I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.