Jazz is my adventure.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Everyone is a genius at being themselves