There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so..." That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.