You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.