If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

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

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

People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

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.