Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

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

The artist must say it without saying it.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.