I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.