I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

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

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

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.

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.

Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'