Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

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

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.

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

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.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.