Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.
It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.