The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

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 never though much about race.