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

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

You can't eat a winner's plaque.