With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me." You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.