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.

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.

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.

Holy Faith is fear for God.

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

If you are not able to ‘adjust everywhere’, then even the moksha, that you have in your hand, will go away.

...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

when we're married, can we go to the ocean? I've never been

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!