Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

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.

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

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

I still got my Ferrari.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.