I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

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.

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.