"We don't know the power that's within our own bodies."

"I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience."

"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."

"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82."

"I had the first integrated Army band in World War II."

"And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into."