I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a little unfair.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.