Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.