I'm one of those rare birds that's in the Clearwater Jazz Holiday hall of fame, ... It's a great tradition. It's been great to watch it morph and grow.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.

The consumer needs to show up for the holiday season for the personal computer industry to do well in the December quarter,

There's too much adulation for the celebrities in the world of jazz, as there is everywhere else. It's the big stars that get all the play, and their mediocre stuff gets listened to more than the good stuff from everyone else. I like Miles. I've got 30 or 40 Miles Davis CDs. But I don't need another Miles album.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

[Fats Waller's talent outstripped even his girth. He was the most celebrated of all stride pianists, the first jazz musician to record on the organ, the composer of hundreds of songs and a master singer and showman who could find high comedy in the most mundane pop tunes.] Some little people have music in them, ... but Fats was all music, and you know how big he was.