You Can't Play Anything On A Horn

I Put All Those Synthesizer Sounds Behind "decoy" And "code M.d." A Lot Of Things We Write Together. A Lot Of Things Are His, But They Don't Have That Thing I Want On The Bottom. I Often Tell Him, I Say, "bobby [irving], If There's A Melody, There's Another One Somewhere That Goes With It."

I Don't Like To Hear Someone Put Down Dixieland. Those People Who Say There's No Music But Bop Are Just Stupid; It Shows How Much They Don't Know.

He Sounded To Me Like He's Supposed To Be The Savior Of Jazz. Sometimes People Speak As Though Someone Asked Them A Question. Well, No One Asked Him A Question.

Anybody Can Play. The Note Is Only 20 Percent. The Attitude Of The Motherfucker Who Plays It Is 80 Percent.

I Would Never Try And Play Like Harry James, Because I Don't Like His Tone - For Me. It's Just White. You Know What I Mean? He Has What We Black Trumpet Players Call A White Sound. But It's For White Music ... I Can Tell A White Trumpet Player, Just Listening To A Record. There'll Be Something He'll Do That'll Let Me Know That He's White.