"Man, there's 12 f * * * ing notes. What's going to be new?"

Thanks to Ivo Neame for spotting this polemic from Branford Marsalis

Everything you read about jazz is: "Is it new? Is it innovative?" I mean, man, there's 12 fucking notes. What's going to be new? You honestly think you're going to play something that hasn't been played already?

The interview, from the Seattle Weekly, asserting the primacy of melody, is HERE