If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

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

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

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.