If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.