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

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.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

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

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.

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