The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

I always believed in being myself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

I never though much about race.