Let My Children Have Music! Let Them

They're Singing Your Praises While Stealing Your Phrases.

Most Customers, By The Time The Musicians Reach The Second Set, Are To Some Extent Inebriated. They Don't Care What You Play Anyway.

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

What Do You Think Happens To A Composer Who Is Sincere And Loves To Write And Has To Wait Thirty Years To Have Someone Play A Piece Of His Music?

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.