Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

Nothing Else Will Ever Capture The Democratic Process In Sound As Perfectly As Jazz.

Jazz Is Not The Kind Of Music You Are Going To Learn To Play In Three Or Four Years Or That You Can Just Get Because You Have Some Talent For Music.

The Nerves Are A Problem On Trumpet, Because When You Mess Up Everyone Can Hear It. Just Remember Most People Are Too Polite To Say Anything About It. That Should Calm Your Nerves.

I Didn't Want To Get That Ring Around My Lips From Practicing The Trumpet, Because I Thought The Girls Wouldn't Like Me. So I Never Practiced.

Let The Critics Criticize And Let The Doers Do.