It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.