When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.