By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.