One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

The idea of life is to give and receive.

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

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

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.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

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.