Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.