I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.