"Seems to me that the only thing that matters is that we like it, and we do. We like to blow, and we like to swing. And we like to make people happy."

"I don't think about yesterday or tomorrow. I just think about today."

"Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look at the audience and I see the world. I see the people. I see the human beings."

"My whole life, my whole soul, my whole everything, I give to music. And I don't care what nobody says."

"I'm not a politician. I'm a musician. I play music. That's all I do."