Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

Everyone is a genius at being themselves

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.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.