At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

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'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!