I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.