What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field