When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

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.