It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

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.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

Live with radiance, dignity and strength of love.

Sorry. Sometimes my mouth engages before making contact with my brain.

He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.

She is my "Soul Dog" and I totally get it now.

If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.

Cats invented self-esteem.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.