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'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.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.

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

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.