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

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.

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

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.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.