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

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.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

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

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

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