You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

Food makes my mind sluggish.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

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.