You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.

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

There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

You got to love to be able to play

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.

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

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