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.

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

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

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

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.