"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole everything is to my music."

"I'm a musician. I don't know nothing about politics."

"I'm a great believer in white people. I know they're going to get it right. They just taking a long time."

"Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look at the audience and I see the world. I see the people. I see the human beings."

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."