I Don't Care Much About Music. What

Mutual Respect Is So Important Because As Soon As It Disappears In Relations Between You And The Next Person, There's Trouble.

I'd Like To Play For You One Of My Compositions, My Only Composition.

I Was Blessed That I Got Married Early And Had A Good Wife. That Sort Of Kept Me Straight. Probably I Would Have Been Like Charlie Parker, You Know, Involved In Drugs Or Alcohol Or Something Like That If I Hadn't Had This Stability.

Many Critics Always Saw And Heard That My Style Comes From Roy Eldridge, Which Is True. But For Many Things, Not Only How To Play The Trumpet But The Way To Choose The Notes, How To Play Them And How To Phrase All Of Them, I Took That From Sweets [edison]. He Really Brought Something New To The Trumpet.

There Have Been Two Great Revelations In My Life: The First Was Bepop, The Second Was Homeopathy.