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.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

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

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

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

I am the worlds laziest writer.