If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

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.

You cannot disregard people and hope to see God

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.

The deeper the illustration the strengthened the value

The nightmare of Trump is not that he doesn't care what people think

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.