We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

Music is an addiction.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

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.

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."