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In Composition You Have All The Time You Want To Decide What To Say In 15 Seconds, In Improvisation You Have 15 Seconds.

To Me, There Is Spirit In A Reed. It's A Living Thing, A Weed, Really, And It Does Contain Spirit Of A Sort. It's Really An Ancient Vibration.

Whoever Has An Original Thing To Say, It Is Sort Of A Threat To The Status Quo.

Bamboo Is Not A Weed, It's A Flowering Plant. Bamboo Is A Magnificent Plant.

The More Original Something Is, The More Of A Threat It Seems Until The People Catch Up With It. That Happened With Thelonious Monk. It Happened With Anybody Who Is Really Original.