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

What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.

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

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.