It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.

You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.