'Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin'

'A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.'

'Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!'

'If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.'

'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'

Blues is rap, just singing it.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.