I'm Out There Doing The Best That

If Somebody Told Me I Only Had An Hour To Live, I'd Spend It Choking A White Man. I'd Do It Nice And Slow.

I Like Stan [getz], Because He Has So Much Patience, The Way He Plays Those Melodies - Other People Can't Get Nothing Out Of A Song, But He Can, Which Takes A Lot Of Imagination.

The Music Has Gotten Thick. Guys Give Me Tunes And They're Full Of Chords. I Can't Play Them...i Think A Movement In Jazz Is Beginning Away From The Conventional String Of Chords, And A Return To Emphasis On Melodic Rather Than Harmonic Variation. There Will Be Fewer Chords But Infinite Possibilities As To What To Do With Them.

I Don't Like To Hear Someone Put Down Dixieland. Those People Who Say There's No Music But Bop Are Just Stupid; It Shows How Much They Don't Know.

Sometimes [playing Free] Doesn't Happen, Because Maybe A Guy's Wife'll Come In, You Know, And His Ego Will Catch Him. If Everybody's Completely Just Straight-without Any Old Ladies Over Here, A Fourth Of Whisky Over There; If It's Balanced Right, It'll Come Off. It Has To Be. But When You Get Egos Involved With Playing Free, You Can't Do It.