Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

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.

I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

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