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.

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

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.

It's not really cool to be singled out.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

The more you know, the more you owe.

Parents test our patience more than anyone else...Being around them keeps you in check...that's what keeps you humbled.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.