As Long As I've Been Playing, They

I Keep Telling Ron Lorman And Them In The Control Room, "it's My Band! The Reason I Have A Band Is Because I Can't Stand For Somebody To Tell Me What To Do."

Jazz Is An Uncle Tom Word. They Should Stop Using That Word For Selling. I Told George Wein The Other Day That He Should Stop Using It.

Music Is The Framework Around The Silence.

If I Have A Dynamite Bass Player - I Have Darryl Jones - It's So Easy To Write For Him Because He's Such A Funky Kid And He's Gifted. He's Like A Little Genius.

That's The Way You Judge A Car, Man, [good Or Bad], When You Start It Up. It's Just The Same Thing. I Mean, I Drive A Ferrari - Not To Be Cute, But Because I Dig It. I'd Rather Drive A Ten-year-old Ferrari Than One Of Them New Things-they Don't Go.