My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
Music keeps people sane.
As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.
If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.
We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.