Always look ahead, but never look back.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above 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.

I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me." You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.