The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.