It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

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

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

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.