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.

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.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

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

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?