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

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

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.

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.

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.

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.

I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me." "It was your humility, wasn't it?

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.

I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.