A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.

Success isn't specially reserved for anyone

You do not have to have the best of everything to make the best of everything.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.