Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

- Johnny Griffin

My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano…

- Johnny Griffin

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explod…

- Johnny Griffin

My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene…

- Johnny Griffin