Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.
[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.
The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play
You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.