Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play until 4 in the morning. Then you'd go out to the corner and talk to a couple of musicians - I used to talk to Oscar Pettiford a whole lot - you'd stand there till 7, 8 or 9, or else go down to the jam session at Minton's.

If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.