You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.