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.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

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

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

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

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.