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

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

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

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

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.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.