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

You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

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.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

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