I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.