Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

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 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.

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

Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

I wanted to hate you, but I just couldn't.

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

If you don't know who I am, I probably make a sound you may like.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.