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.

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

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.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

I made the wrong mistakes

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.