Never play anything the same way twice.

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.

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some fun! Wear something colorful with a hint of sparkle.

I dont get hung up about anything really.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses