Simplicity is a most complex form
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.