“Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.”
Dizzy Gillespie

“Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.”
Duke Ellington

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
Ornette Coleman

“A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.”
Herbie Hancock

“The bottom line of any country is, what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.”
Tony Bennett