A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

The artist must say it without saying it.

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

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 fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.