There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

Love is talkative passion.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

Jazz is what I play for a living.

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.

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

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