Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.