I've Performed Solo For 20

A Jazz Musician Is A Combination Orator, Dialectician, Mathematician, Athlete, Entertainer, Poet, Singer, Dancer, Diplomat, Educator, Student, Comedian, Artist, Seducer, Public Masturbator, And General All-round Good Fellow.

I've Performed Solo For 20 Years Now, But I Don't Do Much Of It, Because If You Only Play Alone, You Go Crazy And Out Of Tune And Play Foolish Music.

I Heard Sidney Bechet Play A Duke Ellington Piece And Fell In Love With The Soprano Saxophone.

If You Listen To Louis Armstrong From 1929, You Will Never Hear Anything Better Than That Really, And You Will Never Hear Anything More Free Than That.

Risk Is At The Heart Of Jazz. Every Note We Play Is A Risk.