It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

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

I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

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.

The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.