I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

You’ve got the best of me

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

The social network will be the new production line in a company.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.