Don Ellis

Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.