Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
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.