I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.