The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

Jazz is my adventure.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Everyone is a genius at being themselves

I always believed in being myself.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.