Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.