Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.

Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.