It's Taken Me All My Life To

Nothing Surpasses My Performances With Small Bands, Especially With Charlie Parker. A Small Band Doesn't Forestall Creativity.

I Think The Idea Is Now For Blacks To Write About The History Of Our Music. It's Time For That, Because Whites Have Been Doing It All The Time. It's Time For Us To Do It Ourselves And Tell It Like It Is.

There Have Been Two Great Revelations In My Life: The First Was Bepop, The Second Was Homeopathy.

Learn To Play The Piano, Man, And Then You Can Figure Out Crazy Solos Of Your Own.

How Do I Know Why Miles Walks Off The Stage? Why Don't You Ask Him? And Besides, Maybe We'd All Like To Be Like Miles, And Just Haven't Got The Guts.