Every Man Prays In His

Put It This Way: Jazz Is A Good Barometer Of Freedom... In Its Beginnings, The United States Of America Spawned Certain Ideals Of Freedom And Independence Through Which, Eventually, Jazz Was Evolved, And The Music Is So Free That Many People Say It Is The Only Unhampered, Unhindered Expression Of Complete Freedom Yet Produced In This Country.

If Anybody Was Mr. Jazz It Was Louis Armstrong. He Was The Epitome Of Jazz And Always Will Be. He Is What I Call An American Standard, An American Original. ... I Merely Took The Energy It Takes To Pout And Wrote Some Blues. ... I Don't Need Time, I Need A Deadline. ...there Are Two Kinds Of Music. Good Music, And The Other Kind. ... Music Is My Mistress, And She Plays Second Fiddle To No One.

Everyone Prays In Their Own Language, And There Is No Language That God Does Not Understand.

The Artist Must Say It Without Saying It.

It Is Becoming Increasingly Difficult To Decide Where Jazz Starts Or Where It Stops, Where Tin Pan Alley Begins And Jazz Ends, Or Even Where The Borderline Lies Between Between Classical Music And Jazz. I Feel There Is No Boundary Line