Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.