The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?

I find my inspiration in myself.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

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