Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

There are no ordinary lives.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.