Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

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.

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

For me, music and life are all about style.

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

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

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