I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong..

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the….

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition..

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper..

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there..

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s..

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm..

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind..

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically..

All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant t….

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to lis….

It's either hip or it ain't..

You blows who you is..

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on..

Jazz to me is a living music..

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it..

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician..

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligatio….

The true artform is being a human being..

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz..

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to phy….