I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

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.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to lose your sense of self.

A murderer is a killer without a uniform.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches, will campaign in college campuses.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.