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.

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

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

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

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.

The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.

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