If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

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.