My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

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

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!