The gods have their own rules..

What’s working, and how can we do more of it?.

We don't really make friends, they make us..

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz..

You learn from the good, you learn from the bad..

I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late '50s, there….

Oh, I don't talk about God..

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment..

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself..

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk..

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense..

All is One (Nature, God).

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time..

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions..

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things.

Money buys everything, even true love..

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't w….

I don't really see myself as famous..

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love..