Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always puzzled me until I went over there to really get into it for myself and find out what it is. It's their tradition and culture, man. We've gotten away from that in America, man. We live in a country of complete fantasy.