It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate read more

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

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Jazz is the music of the body

Jazz is the music of the body

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is read more

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my read more

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.