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

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.

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.

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.