Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

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.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

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--?

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.