If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.

Everything I do is Mingus.