If I Don't Have Friends, Then I

I Can't Stand To Sing The Same Song The Same Way Two Nights In Succession. If You Can, Then It Ain't Music, It's Close Order Drill, Or Exercise Or Yodeling Or Something, Not Music.

Lust May Be In The Heart, Though It Be Not Seen By Others; As Guests May Be In The House, Though They Look Not Out At The Windows.

I Try To Improvise Like Les Young, Louis Armstrong Or Someone Else I Admire. What Comes Out Is What I Feel.

I Joined Count Basie's Band To Make A Little Money And To See The World. For Two Years I Didn't See Anything But The Inside Of A Blue Goose Bus, And I Never Got To Send Home A Quarter.

One Day A Whole Damn Song Fell Into Place In My Head.