There is no art when one does something without intention.

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!

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

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.

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

Simplicity is a most complex form

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.