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

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.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

There's always someone following your next step.

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.

I was more than just a moody artist.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?