You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

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

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.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.