If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.

What we play is life.

You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

White folks still in the lead.