Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

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.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

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.

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