New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

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.

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.

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

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?

San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world

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