If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.

What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.