There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

The only way you find what your limits are is by pushing them.