Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

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.

If you want a quality act as if you already had it.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

The longer it takes to explain value, the more people think you don't have any.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.