I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

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

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

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.

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

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.

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