I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.