“The Bright Blessed Day, the Dark Sacred Night”

“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.”

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

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

“The Pope was such a fine little fella, you know.”

“‎We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself.”

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