Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

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.

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

There are no wrong notes.