It's Taken Me All My Life To

Nothing Surpasses My Performances With Small Bands, Especially With Charlie Parker. A Small Band Doesn't Forestall Creativity.

Learn To Play The Piano, Man, And Then You Can Figure Out Crazy Solos Of Your Own.

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.

Many Critics Always Saw And Heard That My Style Comes From Roy Eldridge, Which Is True. But For Many Things, Not Only How To Play The Trumpet But The Way To Choose The Notes, How To Play Them And How To Phrase All Of Them, I Took That From Sweets [edison]. He Really Brought Something New To The Trumpet.

Miles Got A Mystique About Him-plus He's At The Top Of His Profession. And He's Got Way, Way, Way More Money.