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

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

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

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.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.