Let The Critics Criticize And Let The

The First Time I Ever Played The Trumpet In Public, I Played The Marine Hymn. I Sounded Terrible.

New Orleans Had A Great Tradition Of Celebration. Opera, Military Marching Bands, Folk Music, The Blues, Different Types Of Church Music, Ragtime, Echoes Of Traditional African Drumming, And All Of The Dance Styles That Went With This Music Could Be Heard And Seen Throughout The City. When All Of These Kinds Of Music Blended Into One, Jazz Was Born.

Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

Many Of Our Greatest Musicians Abandoned All Of Their Aesthetic Objectives To Try To Become Pertinent. And, At The End Of The Day, They Never Became Pop Stars. I Counter Stated That Very Strongly, And I Continue To Do That.

The Musicians I Respected Were Much Older Than Me. I Expected Them To Cut My Head, And They Did.