Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

He was also a keen golfer a hobby that begun in his father's golf course. His friends and relatives believe that this event precipitated his own death the following year. " He commented that electronic music: "just doesn't attract me.

In 1963 Evans recorded Conversations with Myself an innovative solo album using the unconventional (in jazz solo recordings) technique of overdubbing over himself. Both his girlfriend Elaine and his brother Harry committed suicide and he was a long time heroin user and later cocaine. In 1966 he met bassist Eddie Gomez with whom he would work for eleven years.