It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about 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.

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've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.