All My Inspiration Comes From Ahmad Jamal.

You Know Why I Quit Playing Ballads? Cause I Love Playing Ballads.

I Never Thought Jazz Was Meant To Be A Museum Piece Like Other Dead Things Once Considered Artistic.

If You Sacrifice Your Art Because Of Some Woman, Or Some Man, Or For Some Color, Or For Some Wealth, You Can't Be Trusted.

Japanese People They Hear My Warmin' Up And They Start Screamin'. They Can Tell It's Me.it's My Tone On The Trumpet, It Sounds Like I'm Speakin'.

Jazz Is An Uncle Tom Word. They Should Stop Using That Word For Selling. I Told George Wein The Other Day That He Should Stop Using It.