At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

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.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.