If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

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

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.

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.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.