Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.