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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That’s jazz.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they’re trying to say with jazz. You don’t need any prologues, you just play.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

There’s a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I’ve moved away from that.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

You’re just sort of searching for this “thing” and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.