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

I am the worlds laziest writer.

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

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

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.

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.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.