I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon..

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs..

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him..

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her….

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it….

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the eleme….

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old..

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality..

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I ….

The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter..

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player pi….

If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at diff….

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time..

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were ….

It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie F….

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years..

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word..

Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain..

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lo….

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least..