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

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

To keep creating you have to be about change.

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.

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

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.