It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.