By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Simplicity is a most complex form
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".