I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.

I never felt like I had a mother.

It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.