Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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

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

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.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good

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

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.