I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.

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.

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

I've always felt acting is a part of music.

Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.