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.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

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.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.

Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.