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!

You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

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

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.

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.