Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.