Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby now don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' Then you'll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that mornin' Ain't nothin' can harm you With your daddy And your mammy standin' by.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.