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.

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

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.