I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
Don't play with something you should cherish for life.
Music, not sex, got me aroused.
Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.
For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.
I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.