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.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

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

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.