I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

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.

It means that I love you and you love me until forever, Mama. Just like Jesus. Right, Mama?” “Yes, sweetheart. Until forever I will love you. Always remember that, Ethan—until forever.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.