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.

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'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

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

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

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.