In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

There are no wrong notes.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!