You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.

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

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

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

You blows who you is.

The best I can do is stay happy.