If Someone Has Been Escaping Reality, I

If Charlie Parker Were A Gunslinger, There'd Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats

I, Myself, Came To Enjoy The Players Who Didn't Only Just Swing But Who Invented New Rhythmic Patterns, Along With New Melodic Concepts. And Those People Are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie And Charles Parker, Who Is The Greatest Genius Of All To Me Because He Changed The Whole Era Around.

I Always Thought That No Matter What Kind Of Work People Did, They Should Involve Themselves Totally With All The Discrimination They Ran Into.

I'm Too Busy Playing. When I'm Playing I Don't Pay Attention To Who's Listening. When I Was Listening I Listened To Symphony Orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You Don't Listen To One Instrument; You Listen To Music.

Anybody Can Make The Simple Complecated. Creativity Is Making The Complecated Simple.