We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

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!

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.

A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.