I Heard Sidney Bechet Play

What I Learned With Cecil Taylor Was Strategy And Survival And How To Resist Temptations And Resist Getting Discouraged.

Make The Drummer Sound Good.

If You Listen To Louis Armstrong From 1929, You Will Never Hear Anything Better Than That Really, And You Will Never Hear Anything More Free Than That.

A Jazz Musician Is A Combination Orator, Dialectician, Mathematician, Athlete, Entertainer, Poet, Singer, Dancer, Diplomat, Educator, Student, Comedian, Artist, Seducer, Public Masturbator, And General All-round Good Fellow.

Before The Work Comes To You, You Have To Invent Work.