If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.

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

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

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 despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

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