“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.”
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.”
“What we play is life.”
“We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself.”
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”
“The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?""Tell me.""Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.”