If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

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.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.