Better to be screwed physically than financially..

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circ….

When you sing, always tell the truth..

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before..

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have..

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human faili….

There was a time when He was not..

Long as I live Long as I breathe With every heartbeat I'll need you near me.

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it..

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together..

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware….

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have..

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism..

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once..

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in….

There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film on Louis Armstrong. What the….

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel ….

You don't need any brains to listen to music..

A song is anything that can walk by itself..

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds..

Obviously I want my music on the radio and I want my record to do well, but I also have a totally different career, so a lot of people who are in mus….