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

There are no wrong notes.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

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.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.