How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

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

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.