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

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

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

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

What we play is life.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

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

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

Believe in miracles. I have seen so many. They came when every indication would say that Hope was lost. Hope is never lost!

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

The header was cleared off the line by the crossbar.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.