There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

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

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