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.

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

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.