The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

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

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.