You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
For me, music and life are all about style.
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.