"We have all been affected as composers, as teachers, as musicians by recordings to an extent that cannot possibly be …"

"For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawb…"

"I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't a…"

"If the listener does eventually come to the point where he makes the ultimate performance by splicing tapes from othe…"

"My experience of the original Edison phonograph goes back to the period when it was first introduced into this countr…"

"People have a good reason for saying that because the Japanese have been smart. They have visited Jamaica and they bo…"

"We did not see the value in vinyl, and so we were quick to sell them to the Japanese, and now they have all the gold."

"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."

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