Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
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.