I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.