Paul Desmond Quotations

Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini.

I felt a responsibility to all other newsletter publishers.