It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

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

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Simplicity is a most complex form

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

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.