The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Chansons possibles ou impossibles

Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

If you have enthusiasm you have a very dynamic effective companion to travel with you on the road to somewhere.

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Buildings have been made because of man.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.