Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.