Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.