Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.