Mary Lou Williams Rutgers Interview Block 894 (Q13082)

I think of a melody, don't tell anybody that it isn't copyrighted. I think of a melody similar to that but it's very bad for me to do that because if I have a bass player that can hear me and follow me, practically all night long, I'll start to compose. It's bad that I do things like that, but now what I do, I'll start a little thing, a little melody and get a copyright and then work from that ...