Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
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.