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!

When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

Never play anything the same way twice.

White folks still in the lead.

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

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.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.