If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.

Love is talkative passion.

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

Jazz is what I play for a living.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.