For me, music and life are all about style.
Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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.
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.