I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse.

I don't believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

I like any and all of my associations with music- writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its pe…

I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher.

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he do…

I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the…

If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not We just wrote it like that