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

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.

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.

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

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

We are all touched by music. Music connects us.

Dogs are lonesome creatures who needs a someone that will love him for eternity, Once they've found the one, He will protect it, believing that he is the only one who could accept him

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudsonthan the banks of the Charles.

Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.