"If you put a piano in a room, just a bare piano. Then you get all the finest jazz pianists in the world and let them play in the presence of Art Tatum. Then let Art Tatum play ... everyone there will sound like an amateur."
—Teddy Wilson
"I wish I could play like Tatum's right hand!"
—Charlie Parker
"First you speak of Art Tatum, then take a long deep breath, and you speak of the other pianists."
—Dizzy Gillespie
