You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

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

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

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 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.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.