Ray Conniff

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.