I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get..

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else..

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great..

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame..

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have….

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works..

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sittin….

There are a million good tunes..

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place..

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs..

That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, ….

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous..

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he has made them available….

Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, ….

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well..

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out..

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill..

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening..

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house t….

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole….