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.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

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.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

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