Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.
Never play a thing the same way twice.
I've Got the World on a String.
Jazz is what I play for a living.
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.
As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.