If you have to ask, then you'll never know (when asked 'what is jazz?')

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

I'm going to miss Robert's market, the cleaners and the dentist, ... But we'll deal with that.