Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

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

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.