God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.