Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.

We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.