Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.
Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.
Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.
A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
