Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

I gave my wife a kiss this morning. She jumped out of bed and did a lap of honour.

I was like, 'What's Margiela?' back then.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.