I Don't Care If A Dude Is

If You Had To Call It "unison", It Ain't Unison. It Ain't The Same As Somebody Else. If You Can Hear That It's Unison, And You Have To Name It Something Other Than "unison", It Ain't Unison, You Know What I Mean? It's Two Guys Playin', But One Guy Is Playin' Slightly Out Of Tune, One Is Playin' Slightly Off Meter.

I Usually Write From The Rhythm Section...if A Drummer Got A Funky Beat On Some Things - Like A Half-shuffle Or A Shuffle Or A Backbeat That's Even - I Can Write Something.

...people Will Go For Anything They Don't Understand If It's Got Enough Hype. They Want To Be Hip, Want Always To Be In On The New Thing So They Don't Look Unhip. White People Are Especially Like That, Particularly When A Black Person Is Doing Something They Don't Understand...that's What I Thought Was Happening When Ornette Hit Town.

Some Of [drummers] Drop Time Because They Want To Hear What You're Doin'.

I Put All Those Synthesizer Sounds Behind "decoy" And "code M.d." A Lot Of Things We Write Together. A Lot Of Things Are His, But They Don't Have That Thing I Want On The Bottom. I Often Tell Him, I Say, "bobby [irving], If There's A Melody, There's Another One Somewhere That Goes With It."