There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

I find my inspiration in myself.

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

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.

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