Quotes

I said, "Well, Dad, I just want to hang around and listen to all these great musicians, maybe meet them, maybe get a chance to sit in and play with them." He says, "Son, you want to spend the rest of your life blowing your lungs out in smoky dives?" I said, "Yeah, yeah, that's what I want to do."

Sidney [Bechet] was a very articulate man, with a real sense of the importance of what he was doing, and of the necessity to pass it on. He discussed the whole artistic idea of what you do as a player - the idea of telling a story, of how to approach theme and variations, and how important it was to convey a feeling.