music became my refuge and then my salvation.
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.
Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.