There Is No Art Without Intention.

Selfishness Can Be A Virtue. Selfishness Is Essential To Survival, And Without Survival We Cannot Protect Those Whom We Love More Than Ourselves.

If Anybody Was Mr. Jazz It Was Louis Armstrong. He Was The Epitome Of Jazz And Always Will Be. He Is What I Call An American Standard, An American Original. ... I Merely Took The Energy It Takes To Pout And Wrote Some Blues. ... I Don't Need Time, I Need A Deadline. ...there Are Two Kinds Of Music. Good Music, And The Other Kind. ... Music Is My Mistress, And She Plays Second Fiddle To No One.

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.

I Don't Need Time. What I Need Is A Deadline!

If It Sounds Good And Feels Good, Then It Is Good!