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

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

I made the wrong mistakes

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.