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".

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

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

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.