If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

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

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive