If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than "unison", it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

I still got my Ferrari.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!