Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

The bandstand is a sacred place.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Jazz is democracy in music.

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.