It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.
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.
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
Every man prays in his own language.
Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.