All Quotes

Thank the good Lord for a job. ”

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. ”

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that. ”

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. ”

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. ”

I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology. ”

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz. ”

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. ”

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory. ”

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ”