Music is an addiction.
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
I still got my Ferrari.
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.