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

We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

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

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

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.