You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John LewisI would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
John LewisOrnette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk
John Lewis