They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

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

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

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