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

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?

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

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

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

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.

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.