"Just recently one of my friends passed away and I went out to the cemetery. On my way back the undertaker asked me how old I was. I told him and he said 'There ain't no sense in you going home!'"-Milt Hinton
"You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops." -Earl Hines
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -Mark Twain
"I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was." -Paul Desmond
"I have won several prizes as the world's slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness." -Paul Desmond
"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be" -Stan Kenton
"In 1939 I met Mona - that's my bride-./ And nothing's been the same ever since./ We fell in love, she blew my mind./ Took the money/...Then she went shopping...and I've been broke ever since." -Milt Hinton
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