I always listen to what I can leave out.
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 ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."