I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you …

- Jackie Mclean

If you can sing it, you can play it.

- Jackie Mclean

I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I loved Bird's playing so much. But Mingus…

- Jackie Mclean