When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

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.

If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than "unison", it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

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

I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.