You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.