Sometimes You Have To Play A Long

You Have To Practice For A Long Time Before You Can Learn To Sound Like Yourself

When I Heard Coleman Hawkins, I Learned To Play Ballads

I Don't Pay No Attention To What Critics Say About Me, The Good Or The Bad. The Toughest Critic I Got Is Myself...and I'm Too Vain To Play Anything I Think Is Bad.

You Can Tell Whether A Person Plays Well Or Not By The Way He Carries The Instrument, Whether It Means Something To Him Or Not.

Monk Was A Gentle Person, Gentle And Beautiful, But He Was Strong As An Ox. And If I Had Ever Said Something About Punching Monk Out In Front Of His Face - And I Never Did - Then Somebody Should Have Just Come And Got Me And Taken Me To The Madhouse, Because Monk Could Have Just Picked My Little Ass Up And Thrown Me Through A Wall.