Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

What we play is life.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.