Runners are poor walkers.
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.
The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.