First you imitate, then you innovate.
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!