You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.