There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

Make the drummer sound good.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.