Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

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

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!