 It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. |
| Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. |
| I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. |
| I wish that person outside would stop coughing. |
| I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound. |
| I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane. |
| Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. |
