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.

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

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

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.

Your inner light is your brightest light.

But it works that way if it works.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.