If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

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

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

What we play is life.