If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.