When you're dead, you're done.

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.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

You can endure all things by grace.

And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

I am a student of whoever I can learn from.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!