Max Roach Quotes

"We never rehearsed, we just got to the stand and said 'Salt Peanuts' or this or that. 'Cos we knew among ourselves what we had been playing on 52nd Street ... [Charles Mingus] was from the West Coast and had a different repertoire ... and Mingus' feelings was hurt, quite frankly, because we didn't give him a chance. We just went right into it, assuming that Mingus knew what we were going to do anyway. During the intermission he complained." - Max Roach (on 'Jazz at Massey Hall')