It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

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.

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

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.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.