If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

- Henry Threadgill

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

- Henry Threadgill

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

- Henry Threadgill

That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what …

- Henry Threadgill

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Thos…

- Henry Threadgill