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

“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.”

“What we play is life.”

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

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

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