A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.
Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
The loudest noise in the world is silence.
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.