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I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress ... so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

I hate music. I wasted my life.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

Jazz never ends ... it just continues.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.