Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

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 try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when you're playing, so you try to train yourself to pick out the best things that you know.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.