I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

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.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

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 the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.