When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

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