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

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

Everyone is a genius at being themselves

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.

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