What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

We all want the withdrawal, ... We all believe it is an illegitimate occupation, and it is a legitimate resistance.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.