I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
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.
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.
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 love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing. . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.