Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.