Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.