Ethics Are More Important Than Laws.

I Think That The Blues Is In Everything, So It's Not Possible To Neglect It. You Hear Somebody Go 'ooh Ooh Oooh,' And That's The Blues. You Hear A Rock N' Roll Song. That's The Blues. Somebody Playing A Guitar Solo? They're Playing The Blues.

The Heart Of A Music Is Its Rhythm. The Heart Of Rhythm Section Music Is The Rhythm.

If You Want To Be Different, Do Something Different.

Having Heard Clifford Brown Play All Those Fast Runs, I Used To Really Practice Clarke Trumpet Exercises All Day Long So That I Could Play Fast. That's All I Wanted To Do. I Was Like A Child With A Toy.

The Musicians, Duke Ellington, His Thing Was Not About Separating Himself From The Rest Of America. Louis Armstrong - Go To The Forefathers Of Our Music - Jelly Roll Morton - They're Not Preaching A Separatist Agenda. They're Not Taking Their Music And Saying, "this Is For Me."