When people dress well, they play well.

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

The best musicians know this music isn’t about “schools” at all. Like my father says, “There’s only one school, the school of ‘Can you play?

Jazz shows us how to find a groove with other people, how to hold on to it, and how to develop it.

Only a few act – the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

There was one thing Beethoven didn’t do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn’t improvising.

Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That’s all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.

When I say “our,” I definitely mean all of America. It’s not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important.

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we’re ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.