I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there....... I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd take the bus downtown with my mother, and the big thing was to sit at the counter and get an orange drink and a tuna sandwich ...on toast. I thought I was living large!... When I was at the Ritz with the publisher a few months ago, I did think, "Oh my God, I'm in the Ritz tearoom." ... The person who was so happy to sit at the Woolworths counter is now sitting at the Ritz, listening to the harp, and wondering what tea to order.... [ellipsis in source] Am I awake?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popul...ar than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first--rock and roll or Christianity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »