I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.