Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.

Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.

We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back.

Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

Every gathering has its moment. As an adult I distract myself by trying to identify it dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times or youll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

I think once I see everybody and go through every team and their pitchers, I'll get an idea of what they like to do. And they'll see what I like to do and swing at. I think there's always something you've got to adjust to.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

I've worked hard to get here; I would like to thank all the people who helped me.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends.

For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.

In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time there is no hope of ever solving them.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.