If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

I made the wrong mistakes

Jazz is my adventure.

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

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

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.