I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.