In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.