When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

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

Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.