"You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense."

"When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, …"

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."

"The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a manhattan you shake to time, a bronx to …"

"[A martini.] Shaken, not stirred."

"I had never tasted anything so cool and clean [as martinis]. They made me feel civilized."

"You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini."

"Martinis should never be shaken. They should always be stirred so that the molecules lie sensuously on top of each ot…"

"[The dry martini is] the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet."

"One [martini] is all right, two is too many, three is not enough."