Don’t put your wand there, boy!. . . Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!
There are a lot of great players. . . a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
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.
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.
Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.
Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.