Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

Improvisation is a compositional method.

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

My roots are in my record player.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.

Sometimes... Sometimes our hearts...crack a little.

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest.

The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.