The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

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

Food makes my mind sluggish.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.