Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being. . . When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups. . . I want to speak to their souls.
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.