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

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

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

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

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

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.

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