Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
Always look ahead, but never look back.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.