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.

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

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.