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What we play is life.
You blows who you is.
[Bebop is] Chinese music.
Love is talkative passion.
Red beans and ricely yours.
When you're dead, you're done.
White folks still in the lead.
I've Got the World on a String.
The best I can do is stay happy.
Jazz is what I play for a living.
You got to love to be able to play
Never play a thing the same way twice.
If you still have to ask, shame on you
Never play anything the same way twice.
I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
If you don't understand it, don't mess with it.
It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.
Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.
I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!
Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.
I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.
The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
