When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.

It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to