I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
A genius is the one most like himself.
I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.
Jazz is my adventure.
When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.