Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.
They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.