I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

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 never though much about race.

When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.