Thelonius Monk Went Over To Bird And

I Never Heard My Music Played The Way I Heard It In My Head.

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.

My Music Is Evidence Of My Souls Will To Live.

I Always Wanted To Be A Spontaneous Composer.

Whatever Coast He's On, A Man Should Be Himself. I Don't Write In Any Particular Idiom, I Write Charles Mingus.