The artist must say it without saying it.

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

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

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

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!