It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

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

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

You blows who you is.

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

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.