Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

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

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.