Every time I listen back to solos of mine I’ll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can’t stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts...

You’re just sort of searching for this ‘thing’ and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying...

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make...

I don’t remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot...

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of...

They’re young, and I’m getting older every game.

I felt like there’s a lot of kids that could have played quarterback. We picked (Doolittle) because he’s a big kid, got a great arm and he runs the offense that we’re going to be...

This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both.

One thing we’re lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to get back into the game in the third quarter and we turned the ball over....

You’re just sort of searching for this “thing” and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying...

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.