When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.