The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.