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!

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

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!

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.

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage