You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.