Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much