If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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.
I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.