Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
I always look forward to the holidays because I love dressing up in festive, shimmery evening dresses.
I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.
Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.
Princess Ann: What do you sell? Joe Bradley: Er, fertilizer.
There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.
I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.
Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.
