Music is a democratic form of art. You don’t need money to buy it or education to study it. All you need is a pair of these [...] Ears.
In his case he preferred desire rather than pleasure and it hung him up, because desire necessitated his advancing, experimenting, denying in advance the easy rushing around of traditional jazz.
Music got me out of time, but that’s only a way of putting it. If you want to know what I think, really, I believe that music put me into time.
What we play is life.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
My voice was the conductor of my life. I was following it. You lead the way and I will follow you.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all.
You never try to write a bad song, but most of them are pretty poor.