Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.