A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.