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.

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.

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.

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

Expect the worst and you won't be surprised

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

My lips went inside the sheep's fur. It was my first kiss. What is this. Why did the staff make me do this?!

Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.