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

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

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

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 don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".