Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

A genius is the one most like himself.

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

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

I made the wrong mistakes