Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.