A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.