Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

Sound has no parents.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.