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

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

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

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 was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

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