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

The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.