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

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

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!

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

There is no art without intention.