The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.