But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

but I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

Boxing is such a great sport and so much like making jazz music, ... There is the footwork, the jab, the constant setting up and reacting to your opponent.

It was great music, ... but it has passed. It is wonderful to recall it, fun to hear it, but that is not for me: I get too restless, too bored; I need something new.

promoter Bill Graham brought us to Fillmore to back up the Who.

One day I heard a pianist play `Honeysuckle Rose,' ... and I was hooked. I said, `What is that?' He said, `jazz,' which was a word I had never heard, and I asked him to spell it for me. My life was changed after that.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.