Simplicity Is A Most Complex Form

I Began By Tinkering Around With Some Old Tunes I Knew. Then, Just To Try Something Different, I Set To Putting Some Music To The Rhythm That I Used In Jerking Ice-cream Sodas At The Poodle Dog. I Fooled Around With The Tune More And More Until At Last, Lo And Behold, I Had Completed My First Piece Of Finished Music.

A Satin Doll Is A Woman Who Is As Pretty On The Inside As She Is On The Outside.

Jazz Is A Good Barometer Of Freedom.

Put It This Way: Jazz Is A Good Barometer Of Freedom... In Its Beginnings, The United States Of America Spawned Certain Ideals Of Freedom And Independence Through Which, Eventually, Jazz Was Evolved, And The Music Is So Free That Many People Say It Is The Only Unhampered, Unhindered Expression Of Complete Freedom Yet Produced In This Country.

Dancing Is Very Important To People Who Play Music With A Beat. I Think That People Who Don't Dance, Or Who Never Did Dance, Don't Really Understand The Beat... I Know Musicians Who Don't And Never Did Dance, And They Have Difficulty Communicating.