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

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”

“There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.”

“Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret.”

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

“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.”

“You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.”