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 my adventure.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

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

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

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