American trumpet and vocalist, twentieth-century jazz legend and pioneer of vocal improvisation.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
I've always tried to be a good human being. That's what matters.
The music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
All my life has been happiness because I did what I loved.
Jazz is played from the soul. That's what it is.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.