Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.