"I don't like to be called a jazz musician. I'm a musician."

"Seems to me that the people who all the time talking about what's wrong with the world, are the same ones who ain't doing nothing to make it right."

"To be a musician, you have to be something of a poet, and you have to be something of a philosopher."

"I'm a happy man because I'm doing what I love to do."

"I've been blessed with a good life. I can't complain."