Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Problems are chances for us to do our best.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

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!

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