I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.