"What we play is life."

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."

"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."

"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."