What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she never went back to some kind of work 'cause that was a very responsible position.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.