There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

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

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

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

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.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.