There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.
Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.
A genius is the one most like himself.
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.
Miles'd got killed if he hit me.
Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.