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.

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

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.

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

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

Food makes my mind sluggish.