Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.