I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.
I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.
I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.