Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
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.