Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.

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

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

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

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.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.