Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

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 don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

I played the wrong wrong notes.