I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

All musicians are potential band leaders.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.