You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

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.

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

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

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

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

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.