It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.