I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

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

You blows who you is.

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

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.