The public has become my fairy godmother.
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
There are a lot of great players. . . a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.
I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.