The Idea Of Life Is To Give

The Idea Of Life Is To Give And Receive.

I Used To Do A Lot Of Apologizing For What The State Department Had Done.

Some Days You Get Up And Put The Horn To Your Chops And It Sounds Pretty Good And You Win. Some Days You Try And Nothing Works And The Horn Wins. This Goes On And On And Then You Die And The Horn Wins.

We Loved One Another, Man. I Mean All Those Stories About The Rift ... There Was No Question Of A Rift Between Charlie Parker And Me.

I Try To Play The Bare Essence, To Let Everything Be Just What It's Supposed To Be In That Particular Spot...you Have Many Things To Pick From When You're Playing, So You Try To Train Yourself To Pick Out The Best Things That You Know.