"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."

"I never had a problem with white people. Some of my best friends are white."

"I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has been my music, my life has been my people. And my people is music."

"I don't need no fancy words to tell you what I feel. I just play my horn."

"Seems to me that the people who all the time talking about what's wrong with the world, are the same ones who ain't doing nothing to make it right."