Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.