To keep creating you have to be about change.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

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.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.