Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.