Jazz Is A Good Barometer Of Freedom.

I Merely Took The Energy It Takes To Pout And Wrote Some Blues.

People Do Not Retire. They Are Retired By Others.

I Fluffed Off The Guy Who Kept Requesting Tunes All Night, Then Found Out He Was The King's Son.

Playing 'bop' Is Like Playing Scrabble With All The Vowels Missing.

The Word [jazz] Never Lost Its Association With Those New Orleans Bordellos. In The 1920s I Used To Try To Convince Fletcher Henderson That We Ought To Call What We Were Doing 'negro Music'. But It's Too Late For That Now.