I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.