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

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.