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.

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.

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

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.

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

How we can make a Judgement if we don't see what Happen.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

President Bush wants to build a space station on the moon. And from the moon, he wants to launch people to Mars. You know what this means. He's been drinking again.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

Claire, did I invite you to my BBQ?" "No." "Then why are you up in my grill?

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

I dont want to repeat my mistakes.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.