Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

No one else can understand you better than you yourself.

Seek knowledge.Learning has no end.Learning makes you forever young.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.