When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now..

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it..

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die..

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks ….