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.

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

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

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

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.