"I realized I could never be a genius in the class of Miles, Parker or Coltrane, so I might just as well forget about …"

"I'm not a chauffeur. Nobody would have bought any of my records if I were. I'd have had nothing to say. I'm supposed …"

"Hey, man; I would never dare to sing alone and unaided. I mean, nobody would want to hear the sound of my natural voi…"

"[B]y the time I actually heard , I started picking that stuff out; my ear was happening. I could hear stuff and that'…"

"I didn't know whether Wayne was crazy or a genius. I knew something was there, but I couldn't get a handle on it. We …"

"A few months ago, Wayne Shorter and I were being interviewed after performing in a quartet at the . Before any questi…"

"redefined swing for modern jazz pianists for the latter half of the 20th century up until today. I consider him to be…"

"We all have natural human tendency to take the safe route—to do the thing we know will work—rather than taking a chan…"

"I came back to New York looking for a piano player. I found him in Herbie Hancock. I had met Herbie about a year or s…"

"Tony would lead the tempo, and Herbie was like a sponge. Anything you played was cool with him; he just soaked up eve…"