Never play a thing the same way twice.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.

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

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

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.

I'll bet right now most of the youngsters and hot club fans who hear the name Storyville hasn't the least idea that it consisted of some of the biggest prostitutes in the world ... Standing in their doorways nightly in their fine and beautiful negligees -- faintly calling to the boys as they passed their cribs.