To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
We must be as pure as our music.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
I love jazz music and sad music.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
When you're dead, you're done.
Jazz is the music of the body.
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.