When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

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.

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

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.