Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

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

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

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!

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

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.