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.
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.
I made the wrong mistakes
Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
The loudest noise in the world is silence.