I wanna hear myself everywhere
I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough
I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.
If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it
The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.
The ‘B’ stands for whatever, depending on the day…beautiful or bully
When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.
Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.
Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief.
I don’t need words. It’s all in the phrasing.
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
I’m more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I’m very proud of my hands.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Music doesn’t have to hop to be hip, as long as it swings it sings.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
I am only a mixture of countless influences and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that’s when I was born.
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker’s next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
Look at the tune and not make the same statement that has been made a million times.
I listen to all kinds of songs. There’s something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it’s pop or jazz or hip-hop.
They told me to play what I felt. Hey, I’m a Jazz musician, that’s what I do.
