There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.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.

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.

At 23 I thought I knew everything, by 33 I realised I knew nothing.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind!

...so individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women's appearance are left unscathed

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

When you look at the sky, you must know that you look at the cosmic factory which enabled you to exist as a live being!

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

I don't think that God raised up Internet bloggers to call out wolves - who have an opinion and a website.

I write the way I write.