I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.