Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
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.
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.