If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

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

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.