Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
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 think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.
The idea of life is to give and receive.
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.