If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

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.

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.

A piece of me is gone, " she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

An acorn would never brag about giving shade.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.