That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

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.

The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.