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.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.

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.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.