“I have my own way of playing and it is a mixture of all the drummers I have admired.”— Tony Williams
“Dante's work is a mixture of the sublime and the low, which is in direct contrast to the classical tradition.”— Erich Auerbach
“I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted to play them in a jazzy way. I didn't want to play them straight.”— Count Basie