Miles'd got killed if he hit me.
I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
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.
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.