My future starts when I wake up every morning.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

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

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!