There Are No Wrong Notes.

I Was Minding My Own Business When Something Says To Me, "you Ought To Blow Trumpet." I Have Just Been Trying Ever Since.

You Have To Know 400 Notes That You Can Play, Then Pick The Right Four.

Some Of [drummers] Drop Time Because They Want To Hear What You're Doin'.

I Put All Those Synthesizer Sounds Behind "decoy" And "code M.d." A Lot Of Things We Write Together. A Lot Of Things Are His, But They Don't Have That Thing I Want On The Bottom. I Often Tell Him, I Say, "bobby [irving], If There's A Melody, There's Another One Somewhere That Goes With It."

Bebop Didn't Have The Humanity Of Duke Ellington. It Didn't Even Have That Recognizable Thing. Bird And Diz Were Great, Fantastic, Challenging — But They Weren't Sweet.