I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.