If I could have done anything more, it would have been less

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

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 entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

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