I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!