If You're Trying To Be Hip, Be

You Have To Be Born With It. You Can't Even Buy It. If You Could Buy It, They'd Have It At The Next Newport Festival.

I've Always Told The Musicians In My Band To Play What They Know And Then Play Above That. Because Then Anything Can Happen, And That's Where Great Art And Music Happens.

Look, Man, All I Am Is A Trumpet Player.

Sometimes [playing Free] Doesn't Happen, Because Maybe A Guy's Wife'll Come In, You Know, And His Ego Will Catch Him. If Everybody's Completely Just Straight-without Any Old Ladies Over Here, A Fourth Of Whisky Over There; If It's Balanced Right, It'll Come Off. It Has To Be. But When You Get Egos Involved With Playing Free, You Can't Do It.

My Father's Rich, My Momma's Good Looking. Right? And I Can Play The Blues. I've Never Suffered And Don't Intend To Suffer.