There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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.