Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.
Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.
I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
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.