I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

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