Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

The process is the most beautiful part.

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.