Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they lim….

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge..

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock..

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very d….