Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

I love rainstorms...the thunder, lightning, wind, all of it. So much going on at once, so many emotions...just like me.

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When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.