 I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde. |
| Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. |
| Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. |
| I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed. |
| His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing? |
| The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point. |
| What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. |
| People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world. |
