I played the wrong wrong notes.
Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
All musicians are potential band leaders.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
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.
Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.