Miles’d got killed if he hit me.

Its always night, or we wouldn’t need light.

Be-bop wasn’t developed in any deliberate way.

Anybody talented in any way – they’re called eccentric.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn’t born there, but I’ve been living there all my life.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I’m pretty good at those games.

I’d go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I didn’t know there were 2 ten o’clocks in a day...

Jazz is my adventure. I’m after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That’s it. Just using notes differently.

I don’t know where jazz is going. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.