1. “What we play is life.”
2. “Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.”
3. “You’ve got to be good or as bad as the devil. When you’re dead, you’re done.”
4. “If you don’t understand it, don’t mess with it.”
5. “Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no music in them.”
6. “Love is talkative passion.”
7. “There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”
8. “When you’re dead, you’re done.”
9. “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
10. “You blows who you is.”
