Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

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!

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.