Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.