Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

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

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.

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.

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

I have accepted the challenge of life, to be all that I can possibly be.

In war, the only true victory is peace.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

You were perfect – perfect for me – and I love you

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.