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

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

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.

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

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.