Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

The voice of the archangel is the trumpet call of God.

What we could consider magic, may just be science that we don’t understand yet.

I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.” “Oh?” “Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.