The best I can do is stay happy.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.

The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

I've Got the World on a String.

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.