«The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.»
«Mein liebstes weibliches Wesen ist die Trompete. Ihr kann ich das Mundstück abschrauben.»
«My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn…»
«Jazz doesn’t need defining. It’s a feeling. It’s born in you.»
«In 1938 we made the first transatlantic radio broadcast of a jazz concert.»
«If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.»
George Wein: «The first Newport Jazz Festival 1954 has attracted over 11.000 people.»
«All my life, I’ve felt obliged to try and teach anybody who would listen.»
«Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.»